Oenonites

Oenonites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PolychaetaspidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Polychaeta
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Polychaeta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Polychaeta
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Polychaeta

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.9 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 385.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 14 of 48 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 33 of 48 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 48 occurrencesDevonian454–452 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 8 occurrences450–447 Mya — about 2 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 2 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 1 occurrence440–438 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 1 occurrence436–433 Mya — about 1 occurrence433–431 Mya — about 6 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 1 occurrence429–426 Mya — about 2 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 13 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 8 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences449.9 Mya387.95 Mya454 Mya385 Mya

48 occurrences of Oenonites on record, most of them in the Silurian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

48 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

12 formations

Kopanina — 49.94°N, 14.05°EKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.17°EHogklint Beds — 57.83°N, 18.50°EVaureal — 49.83°N, 64.40°WLower Visby — 57.81°N, 18.45°ESaunja — 58.84°N, 24.98°EHulderstad — 58.84°N, 24.98°EBills Creek — 45.85°N, 85.88°WKlasen — 57.82°N, 18.90°EKorgessaare — 58.84°N, 24.98°EMoe — 58.84°N, 24.98°EEllis Bay — 49.84°N, 64.45°WHagen-Balve — 51.37°N, 7.86°E

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The named rock units Oenonites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Oenonites and its relatives

Silurian

Where Oenonites and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

186 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Oenonites, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

7 references

Each of the 48 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Oenonites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Oenonites was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPolychaetaspidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hinde 1879